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  1. remembercolinlee

    remembercolinlee Well-Known Member

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    Tbh it was just an observation...I hadn't realised it was that stark
     
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  2. humanbeingincroydon

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    ...so I take it Jack Grealish's asking price has dropped overnight then?
     
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  3. remembercolinlee

    remembercolinlee Well-Known Member

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    1971 league cup final team.
    1 Pat Jennings
    2 Joe Kinnear
    3 Cyril Knowles
    4 Alan Mullery (c)
    5 Peter Collins
    6 Phil Beal
    7 Alan Gilzean
    8 Steve Perryman
    9 Martin Chivers
    10 Martin Peters
    11 Jimmy Neighbour
    Substitute:
    12
    Jimmy Pearce

    1973 league cup final team
    1 Pat Jennings
    2 Joe Kinnear
    3 Cyril Knowles
    4 John Pratt
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    25'
    5 Mike England
    6 Phil Beal
    7 Alan Gilzean
    8 Steve Perryman
    9 Martin Chivers
    10 Martin Peters (c)
    11 Jimmy Pearce
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    12
    Ralph Coates

    3 differences in the starting line up ... 4 including the 1 allowed sub... in just 2 years.

    1967 FA Cup team
    GK 1 Pat Jennings
    DF 2 Joe Kinnear
    DF 3 Cyril Knowles
    MF 4 Alan Mullery
    DF 5 Mike England
    DF 6 Dave Mackay (c)
    MF 7 Jimmy Robertson
    FW 8 Jimmy Greaves
    FW 9 Alan Gilzean
    MF 10 Terry Venables
    MF 11 Frank Saul
    Substitutes:
    MF 12 Cliff Jones

    6 differences between the 1967 and 71 final teams...7 if you include the 1 allowed sub.

    Having players at a club s long time is not a problem...not having new blood and the new ideas and energy they bring in is an issue...as our decline shows.
     
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  4. Dier Hard

    Dier Hard G'day mate!

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    At this moment I'd rather keep him and give him the benefit of the doubt to prove his fitness. Talent-wise he's one of the best I've seen, genuinely ridiculous how talented he is and so if this regime he's been put on by Jose works, then we'll see an unbelievable footballer for this club that could rival Modric in regards to the best CM I've seen at Tottenham in my lifetime.

    However, if Barca/ PSG did offer what we paid (or more) then I wouldn't blame Jose/ Levy if they chose to accept. Sometimes a risk is too much and even though he could well be worth £150m+ in a couple years and elevate the club to a new level if he sorted his fitness, he could equally be worth £6m if he still walks around like a fatty and only plays a maximum of 40 mins here and there.

    So yeah, would prefer to keep at the moment but wouldn't be too bothered if we could sell and immediately get our money back.
     
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  5. PowerSpurs

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    I think about 1-2 differences over each season is about right so 7 or 8 over 5 seasons. The team you showed that played against City includes a number of players who have started a lot this season but only due to injuries. I don't think all of Toby, Jan, Davies, Lamela and Dier would be in our starting XI and Dembele and Rose defintely were back then. So our seven new players would be Aurier, Sanchez, Davies, Ndombele, Lo Celso, Winks and Sissoko if you compared the realistic first elevens. We've also added Tanganga, Sessegnon, Skipp, Gelson, Lucas and Bergwijn to the squad over that period. So we've turned over half the squad. The reason for the decline isn't lack of transfers....it is the players at their peak in 2015 were absurdly good for what we paid for them.
     
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  6. The Huddlefro

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    I'm broadly with you on this, if someone slapped 80m down for NDombele then I'd be sorely tempted - that's Aarons and probably a very decent chunk of 'New DM' sorted from one sale. But I would love to see him get fit and smash it with us too for all the reasons you outline.

    Ultimately if a bid came in it would have to be judged on the amount of money on offer and how we judge his fitness after months of this 'global fitness program' and the effort we would hope he's putting in to get in good shape during this virus period.
     
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  7. Spurf

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    Am I wrong did not Jose say NDombele was fit? If it's fitness then why sell him but I understood from what Jose was saying it was attitude NOT fitness.
     
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    Depends which outfit is reporting it

    The Atlantic's version is the club has paid for a personal trainer and a specialised chef for Ndombele, so I think we know which one is firmly into "complete bollocks" territory
     
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  9. Spurf

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    The Atlantic? So, no I have no idea which one of what is bollocks territory.
     
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  10. humanbeingincroydon

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    It's remarkable just how often The Atlantic's take on anything is proven to be utter crap

    The sad thing is that so many of the Reddit crowd seem to believe that they're Tier 2 (i.e. the only thing more credible is something on the club's website/social media feeds) when, in reality, they're little more than clickbait behind a paywall - but because they're behind a paywall, the Reddit crowd use them as a source to flex that they've paying for the forbidden knowledge
     
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  11. The Huddlefro

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    Do you mean The Athletic?
     
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  12. humanbeingincroydon

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    Oh yeah...
     
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    In my defence, The Atlantic does currently have an article titled "Spreading the Coronavirus to Own the Libs" on their front page, so it's not that difficult to confuse one ****ehawk organ for another...
     
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    There was also talk that he was ''enjoying' London too much.
    Particular areas of the disliked colour.
     
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  16. humanbeingincroydon

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    Lille Bring & Buy Sale Watch
    BuzzSport...

    ...oh ****ing hell, we're using BuzzFeed for transfer rumours now?

    Anyway, they're linking us with Lille rightft back Zeki Celik

    In other words, they ticked off three tropes in one story: a right back, a Lille player, and a Turk...
     
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  17. Spurf

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    HBIC you don't have to defend yourself for me. We are different generations so that half the time I don't know what you are talking about and it's probably similar for you when I post my music <ok>
     
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    <laugh> Ditto. Glad I'm not the only one! (no offence HBIC but I often cannot make head or tail of some posts! Your knowledge though, especially of foreign teams/players is mindblowing).
     
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  19. humanbeingincroydon

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    I'll freely admit that Levy is a cheapskate if I'm hired as DoF this summer

    ...now where did I leave my Dutch phrasebook?
     
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    Schteve McClaren's house?
     
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